What is undeniably true: Boston has enjoyed a low level of violence when compared with other major American cities in recent years. That trend continued in 2023.
State Rep. John Moran and Boston City Council President Ed Flynn met with leaders of the Worcester Square Area Neighborhood Association at the corner of East Concord and Albany streets to survey a city plan to open a new shelter in the 700-block of Albany Street.
The city reopened its ‘comfort station’ in the area of Mass. and Cass. What you should know.
“It’s the most low-threshold space that there is in the city and the next stop is the street.”
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With the state-wide lockdown, individuals living unsheltered found public restrooms closed to them and the services they relied on altered or shuttered. As a result, residents of the South End and Roxbury experienced an increase in incidents of human waste and refuse left on private and public property. As the pandemic surged, reports of improperly discarded needles flooded the city’s 3-1-1 system.
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